Recruitment and retention
What caused the talent crisis – and how can HR solve it?
In some sectors, the labour market is far from buoyant – but HR can play a key role in ensuring the worker shortages seen this year are a thing of the past as we move into 2022
Employment law
Nurse disciplined for wearing cross necklace to work was constructively unfairly dismissed, tribunal rules
Judge finds NHS trust’s uniform policy was rarely enforced and that permitted forms of jewellery posed a greater health and safety risk
Health and wellbeing
December Covid absences highest since records began, figures show
ONS estimates 3 per cent of the workforce was away because of symptoms or self-isolation during the last month of 2021
Recruitment and retention
Demand for staff continues to climb as candidate availability falls, poll reveals
Experts warn that a shortage of workers is ‘testing the resolve’ of employers as supply dropped sharply at the end of 2021
Spotlight
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Will there really be a ‘Great Resignation’?
14 Jan 2022Nicola Callaghan examines the likelihood that predictions of a mass worker exodus will come to fruition, and how employers can prevent it happening
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How can businesses deal with ‘overemployment’?
14 Jan 2022Mark Callaghan and Raoul Parekh explain what employers should do if a member of staff is holding down two full-time remote roles
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What businesses need to know about the ongoing challenge of IR35
13 Jan 2022Nick Bustin and Dinesh Pancholi explain how employers can ensure they remain compliant as the end of HMRC’s year of ‘light touch’ enforcement draws nearer
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Does an employee being on call count as working time?
13 Jan 2022Two recent cases have highlighted the challenges involved in determining what does and does not count as working time, as Gemma Wilson explains
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Lancaster, Lancashire
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